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Shuster Statement on Bipartisan Surface Transportation Extension

News Release: Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) released the following statement today on the introduction of a bipartisan bill to extend the authorization for federal highway and transit programs through December 4, 2015...


FAA: Think Twice about "Drone Registration" Firms

News Release: Unmanned aircraft users should know they probably won’t need help registering their drones when the system is in place.


FAA Statement: Delays at NYC Area Airports

News Release: Air traffic operations in the New York metro area returned to normal around 11: 0 pm Eastern time Saturday after repairs were made to a fiber-optic cable damaged earlier in the evening during a traffic accident. The outage interrupted air traffic radar service in the New York metro area, as well as high-speed telecommunications services for a number of other telephone company customers.


Inhofe Commemorates 25th Anniversary of 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments

News Release: Inhofe Commemorates 25th Anniversary of 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments


Maritime Transportation’s Role in International Food Aid Programs to be Focus of Joint Hearing

News Release: The Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure’s Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation and the Committee on Agriculture’s Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture will hold a joint hearing next week on the role played by the maritime industry in the transportation of food aid and how proposed changes to existing food aid programs and cargo preference rules would affect that historic partnership.


FAA Focuses on U.S. Aviation Global Leadership

News Release: As part of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Michael Huerta’s commitment to further U.S. global leadership in aviation, he visited the Dubai Air Show this week. His trip included meeting with government and industry aviation representatives from the Middle East region and other regions ...


FAA Proposes $68,000 Civil Penalty Against Unical Aviation

News Release: WASHINGTON-The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposes a $68,000 civil penalty against Unical Aviation Inc. of the City of Industry, Calif., for allegedly violating Hazardous Materials Regulations.


News Release: Inhofe Statement on the Conferees Named to the Transportation Reauthorization Bill


Congressional Roundtable in New Orleans to Focus on Ports, Waterways, Flood Control, & Other Water Resources Infrastructure

News Release: A Congressional roundtable in New Orleans Friday will examine issues related to the next Water Resources Development Act (WRDA), legislation that authorizes the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to carry out navigation, flood control, shoreline protection, hydropower, dam safety, water supply, recreation, environmental restoration and protection, and disaster response and recovery activities throughout the Nation.


Inhofe Statement on NERA’s New Analysis on the Administration’s Carbon Mandates

News Release: Inhofe Statement on NERA's New Analysis on the Administration's Carbon Mandates


Shuster Statement on Obama Administration’s Rejection of Keystone XL Pipeline

News Release: Washington, DC - House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster issued the following statement today after President Obama permanently halted the Keystone XL pipeline project that would have added thousands of jobs to the American economy and increase our Nation’s energy security.


News Release: Washington, D.C. -- Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Ranking Member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, released the statement below following the Obama Administration's decision to reject the Keystone tar sands pipeline.


UAS Registration Task Force Day 2 Update

News Release: Statement: UAS Registration Task Force Day Two


FAA Focuses on Helicopter Safety

News Release: The total number of U.S. helicopter accidents has steadily declined over the past 10 years, but the aviation community has not made sustainable progress in reducing the number of fatal accidents. In response to the Federal Aviation Administration’s 2013-2014 post-crash fire and blunt force trauma study ...



Surface Transportation Bill Conferees Announced

News Release: Following Speaker Ryan’s announcement of conferees on the multi-year surface transportation bill overwhelmingly approved by the House today, Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) released the following statement...


UAS Registration Task Force Day Three Update

News Release: The Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Registration Task Force completed its final day of meetings. The group focused on reaching a consensus on a recommended process for registration. The discussions included how an operator might prove a UAS is registered, how the aircraft would be marked, and how to ...


Surface Transportation Reauthorization & Reform Act Receives Overwhelming House Support

News Release: Following three days of debate, during which over 100 amendments were considered, the U.S. House of Representatives today overwhelmingly approved a bipartisan, multi-year surface transportation bill to reauthorize and reform federal highway, transit, and highway safety programs.


News Release: Washington, D.C. -- U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), chairman of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, and Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA), ranking member of the Senate EPW Committee, today released a statement following the House passage of H.R. 3819, the Surface Transportation Reauthorization and Reform Act (STRR Act), a bipartisan, multi-year surface transportation bill to reauthorize and reform federal highway, transit, and highway safety programs...


Inhofe, Boxer Statement on House Passage of Surface Transportation Reauthorization Bill

News Release: Inhofe, Boxer Statement on House Passage of Surface Transportation Reauthorization Bill